Starry night
The big dipper is huge in the sky! And Venus is so bright she looks like an airplane coming in for a landing. I’m not used to seeing Cassiopeia in the western sky; she looks upside down. Mars is very red. Sirius is chasing Orion right across.
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
– Samuel JohnsonIn this weather?
Last night I took the dog out and stood on the patio waiting for her to be done. She sniffed around a bit, then froze. Staring over to the side of the yard, she took one slow step. Then, two more slow steps. I thought “No way is there anything out in this weather!” Suddenly she bolted to the fence, and a little brown rabbit darted off across the icy expanse behind our back yard! Wow. I couldn’t believe it.
Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of the morning sun.
– Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Pg 197People become motivated by relationships, not fear of punishment.
– Your Child’s Strengths Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men, with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love. It seeks to make men and women who prize truth, justice, wisdom, benevolence, and self-control as the choicest acquisitions of a successful life.
– David O. McKayWhat?
Today’s low: 34 degrees. Current temp: 32 degrees. Every morning this sort of thing happens. I don’t get it.
The sky is so incredibly blue today! (though a bit brighter than this photo makes it look)
About me
One of my kids was playing with my phone & downloaded the tumblr app. It looked cool and, dissatisfied with the texting upload to blogger, I decided to give it a try.
